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Product Description

Product Description

Brand new from CAD Audio, the AS32 is a professional-quality Acoustic Deflection Shield.

From the Manufacturer

The Acousti-shield 32 was developed as an accessory for the home recording professional. When effectively utilized, it can substantially reduce unwanted reflections, echo flutter and unwanted environmental acoustic interference. A trouble-free design results in an easy to use, highly flexible device, while not sacrificing stand-mounted stability. The Acousti-shield 32 is constructed from high quality stainless steel and high density micro cell acoustic foam. The Acousti-shield 32 is supplied with mounting hardware to adapt to most microphones for easy, flexible placement. The Acousti-shield 32 is an essential tool for enhanced performance and a vital accessory for the professional musician.

Portable Design for Easy Placement

About CAD Audio

CAD Audio celebrates its 80 year heritage of world class products designed to satisfy the Studio, Live and Installed sound customer. CAD Audio sprung from its Conneaut Ohio roots and continues its operations in Solon Ohio delivering exceptional audio reproduction with the legendary performance and durability you expect. Recent introductions of the StagePass and GXL Wireless along with the acclaimed Sessions series of headphones has established new categories of excellence for CAD Audio.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

I must vehemently disagree with the previous reviewer of this product. I guess he misunderstood its intended usage. In his case, he should have purchased an enclosure for his noisy computer instead.In any case, here goes my review:

The unit is reasonably well build and looks professional in the studio. It considerably minimize the room's reflection and it allows the user to adjust the dryness of the sound by changing the panel's distance to the mic. While it may not be a replacement for a well balanced sound booth, it does improve the quality of the recording.

Pricing was good and shipping time was great. Having recorded a few gold and platinum albums myself, I consider this to be a useful product and a good value for a home studio.

I am a professional VO Actor but since moving to a new apartment, I needed to create a 'home studio' that provided quality recording results without being able to build a sound/recording booth in a rental property. I set this up in the upper loft that I use as my office. I re-recorded some voice-overs and listened to the before and after. I noticed SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT in sound without actually doing anything else other than having a standard cardioid microphone with a pop filter. It eliminated all ambient background noise from any echo, bounce and surrounding white noise. I couldn't believe how clean the vocals came out just by adding this CAD Audio Acousti-Shield. I am glad I selected this one after much homework, reading reviews, comparisons with other products (even looking at Guitar Center-which charged much more).

I prefer standing up to do recordings so that I can get full use of my diaphragm and had a boom microphone stand. I found that with a couple tweaks, you can make this work with a boom stand. I purchased a 6" Extension Tube (AD-8B) & an Adapter to turn a male-male extension tube to a female-male (AD-5B) from Atlas Sound to work with my standard 'On Stage Stand' microphone boom stand.See pictures of my set up. I plan on adding some additional sound improvements to the wall and ceiling but this alone was such an amazing sound improvement, I was most definitely impressed. I wanted to add a few images of my set up but I don't see where to add images. So when I can do a video review I will update this to show my setup.

This is a portable sound booth that works very well. Use a good condenser microphone and pop filter screen to get studio quality. The item is heavy so you need to use a decent microphone stand. I am very pleased with this product and would recommend it for even garage bands or those that cannot afford professional studio time where they have sound proof booth.

I bought this to use in my home studio for voice over/voice acting. It does a great job keeping unwanted reflections out and cleans the sound up a lot overall. You can really hear a difference with and without it. I don't have any other acoustic treatment in the room i'm using and my recordings sound just fine. It will only take a few strategically placed panels to make the recordings perfect.

Warnings: Make sure you have a sturdy stand, preferably a straight stand not a boom stand. You can use this item on a boom stand however you will have to position it so that the boom is straight up and down, the mount for the enclosure does not flex or adjust in any way.

It should be made absolutely clear that this item is NOT a magical device that makes room noise disappear. It is intended to help block room noise and your typical 'slap-back' in an acoustically untreated room. If you're expecting this to turn any space you have into a perfect vocal booth, you'll end up disappointed.

I bought this device so I could do some vocal sessions in an acoustically untreated apartment living room, where the slap-back was quite bad. I found that having the vocalist stand in a corner, and placing this in front of them worked best; the natural reverb & slap-back from the room was significantly diminished; still present, but much less present had the acousti-shield not been present.

That being said, because of the inherent placement of the mic in a corner, it can be rather uncomfortable for the vocalist to record.

If you're looking for a better solution, try building a few frames out of PVC pipes, and clip a couple of moving blankets on them, and create a vocal booth that way. Again, it won't be perfect, because it won't keep sound out of the general area, but it will definitely reduce the slap-back/reverb that hits the mic.

I hadn't before used an Acoustic Shield so I have no other brand or ttpe to compare it to but I have conducted my own test runs with and without using the CAD Audio AS33 Acoustic Shield and the differences are night and day. I am immediately aware of the added richness to my vocals and Extra cancelation of background noises in my small in-home / portable studio setup The padding and slick metal backing is both durable and stylish. I highly recommend for use in any practical sense. A purchase well exceeding all expectations. O am pleased.